Oh, I am well aware of the other 'procedures'. What truly angers me is that I have been on a 'special diet', for the most part, for many years. I left NYC in 1990 with bleeding lungs, moved to Florida, lived in the fresh air and cleaned up my diet many years ago. I had healed, many years ago. I was the fittest most active 47 yr old you ever met up until 5 months ago. I went to a dentist with a mild complaint of a toothache, he diagnosed it as another tooth... we argued about it even and why I followed his advice to do the root canal bewilders me to this day. Mostly I was busy and I wanted, WANTED, to trust his opinion as a professional.

Needless to say I lost the toothachy tooth which developed a major abcess due to his neglect, I lost the root canaled tooth due to his lack of informed consent (none whatsoever) about material used and the problems that developed rapidly due to his sloppy work. I went to another dentist seeking relief, had the two teeth pulled there (sloppy extractions job, cavitations the Dr (my MD Dr is great) says, and had that second dentist start work on a crown for a molar with a 35 yr old amalgam filling... which must have dumped egads of mercury into my system because within 5 days I could barely walk and almost lost my kidneys... I have had constant swollen glands on that side since that day, and an earache... first earache in my life... and it is costing me egads of money att he Dr for tests and EDTA chelation and other stuff to go along.

day after day after day, most of my time is now spent taking this or that food supplement or vitamin in the proper order to chelate or renutrient and I feel like crud... far as i know I can pretty much write off this year of my life as concerns major physical activity and hopefully, hopefully, bacuse there is no guarantee, I won't have permanent kidney damage, muscle damage or similar.

To make matters worse, and contributing to the whole mercury/infection dilemma, i have a plastics sensitivity and both dentists used acrylates in my mouth when they should have used glass ionomers. The root canaled tooth is gone but no guarantee a residue doesn't remain, I have slight nerve damage from the root canal, like pin pricks in my face, I get hard acne like sores in that area on my face now (between lip and nose, was a bicuspid), have difficultly chewing food, have been without even a temporary crown on the still prepped molar since January, and have yet to find a dentist who will take all of these matters seriously and actually help me.

In my twenties Iworked extensively with plastics, many of the same chemicals dentiost put into your mouth with the white composites. I can assure you, I know full what what these items are and I also know full well that in my field of work, the same chemicals that dens\tists put into your mouth are considered quite posionous by OSHA. In fact, as mentioned, I stopped this work in 1990 because of bleeding lungs. What angers me ios that most dentists do not not seem, truly do not seem to be aware of the toxicity of plastics.

I should have raised up my arm and simply slapped that dental technician when I smelled the resin she was aiming at my tooth.